I recently bought mine at Four Seasons and Jeff was great to work with. I think it was in the $1200 range.
So far I've run a few boxes of Federal American Eagle 124 gr. FMJ through it without any issues. I'll try out some other ammo in the future.
You are absolutely correct in that we have few options for a 1911 in 9mm. Sadly I don't know of another available to us in this communist state.
I had always thought of having a custom one made. Basically I wanted a stainless steel Gold Cup in 9mm but for what I wanted I was figuring about $2000 to have it built.
I got most of the features I wanted in the S&W. Stainless steel, ramped barrel, serrated front strap and fully adjustable sights.
Some features I didn't get were the Gold Cup wide trigger, the Gold Cup top slide rib and the Gold Cup angled slide serrations.
One of my few complaints is the trigger. The trigger is a little heavy, I don't have a trigger pull gauge, maybe I'll get one and see where I stand. I'm spoiled in that I have a Colt Gold Cup with a Videcki trigger and a Lewis Arms trigger job. A trigger job may be in the future.
All in all I'm pretty happy with it. Many people are against the 1911 in 9mm though they have no comment for Colt making them years ago and the .38 Super is a version of 9mm. They conveniently forget about that. With the low price of 9mm ammo and the rugged 1911 platform in stainless steel the SW1911 Pro Series also has a wide external extractor for reliability.